三名警察在一场政治选举中被诬陷，成为不择手段的立法者的棋子，他们必须逃亡这一场追捕

大萧条时期，每个人都要守住一个梦想，以此来度过最黑暗的时光，生活失意的汽车制造商查尔斯?霍华德（杰夫?布里吉斯 Jeff Bridges 饰）也不例外。他买了一匹小个子赛马，名为“海饼干”，并笼络了一批同样有梦想的人，意图进入赛马圈。 　　第一个发现海饼干天赋的是训练师 汤姆?史密斯（克里斯?库珀 Chris Cooper 饰），他认为这匹马虽然个头矮小，腿脚也不太灵光，天性中却藏着十足的执拗和倔强，这有可能使其成为赛马圈的王者。他们找来前拳击冠军瑞德?波拉德（托比?马奎尔 Tobey Maguire饰）作为海饼干的骑师，三个人一匹马在共同的征程中重新找到了生活的方向。

A young Italian noblewoman plots with her lover and her family to murder her abusive father leading to an uproar in the community and the Roman Catholic church set in 16th Century Italy.

Brief Meetings is about a love triangle between three very different people. Nadia, a country girl, falls in love with Maskim, a roaming guitar playing geologist, and in her search for him she ends up working for Valentina, his long-distance, bureaucrat wife. Nadia begins to work as a maid for Valentina, but as they spend time together they have flashbacks to their brief meetin...

　　Fueled by power, money, sex and politics, the drama's three central characters are looking to grab their share of wealth and glory amid Silicon Valley's digital gold rush of the late-1990s.